It is for me you have placed yourself in this position, while I refuse to try to liberate you from it.

If I only could; if I dared! But I am chained on every hand." "But you are going to break those chains; you are going to be free; you are going to be happy." Her words nerved me.

The impossible seemed possible, and yet everything was misty.
"Only one thing can make me happy," I said, "and that can never be now.
I have lost my strength; I am become a pitiful coward." "You are going to be happy!" she repeated.
"Miss Forrest," I said, "do not mock me.

My life for days has been a hell.

I have had a terrible existence; no light shines in the sky.